polling stations in venezuela waiting for the last voters to cast ballots with anticipation rising to see if longstanding leader hugo chavez or his democratic opponent enrique capriles will take the helm in caracas. border shelling between syria and turkey as fresh violence hits damascus with a car bomb exploded outside police headquarters. italians fury over mounting cuts descends into clashes while civil servants marching for their jobs in spain.

five am in moscow i matras are bring you today's top stories and a look back at the week's news polling stations in venezuela are closing although some remain open as citizens wait in long lines to cast their votes no incidents have been reported during the election day as the nation chooses which candidate is going to run the country for the next six years incumbent leader days faces his biggest challenge yet to his socialist rule from henry kick up realists a young democrat with both candidates of value to respect the election's outcome the us media coverage of the presidential race in venezuela has been criticized as being biased against chavez asia times correspondent pepe escobar thinks washington would like a willing partner in caracas not an intractable. it is the all the election which is so seized will i just flush which it was the united states didn't love to have the. dorian stated even as we're at it like it was before job is before these

twelve years but the trouble is it's amazing because if you follow the mainstream media in india west's in the western europe and even the most of south america big private groups go into all the jail cells of america even as well in brazil and argentina for instance to show this is the most big and nice head of state in modern times even more than said that was saying. that the image that you maybe it's amazing. these private groups at least of them they are aligned with washington just like the situation that you see inside of it as well so all of the job is there just as a communist or even a fascist or even a mix of tools like a communist chess it's completely absurd. artie's correspondent lucy kavanagh he's in venezuela hosting all the latest news and photos from caracas you can follow her twitter feed to stay updated on venezuela's choice for its political future. a

car bombs exploded near police headquarters in syria's capital damascus killing at least one person syrian t.v. is calling it a terror act the blast the latest in a series of attacks aimed at security personnel and government institutions with damascus in particular a frequent target this is syria and turkey exchange another round of artillery shells across the border middle east correspondent paula slayer has the latest. for the thoughtful straight day take a shot tell you he has fired into syria this coming just minutes off to a morse had landed in turkish to treat the fired from syria we understand that at least eight mortars were fired from to key into syria now according to the mayor of the take border town where this cell landed he says that there was very little damage other than damage to a grain depôt but other than that it landed in an empty field and there were no reports of injuries it is the same board of an age when. five members of the same

family with children on wednesday that was two women and three children when a mortar five from syria landed in always a danger building at the same time we're hearing continuing words from the turkish prime minister that he will not allow these kind of events to go unprovoked he says that if pushed he will declare war and that has been quite a strong message from him now that it's going to be soon that this instability and on the turkish syrian border will result in regional instability there's also concern by numerous critics who have put forth the argument that they believe that the shells that are being fired from the syrian side are being fired at liberty in each remember that this rewarding area on the syrian side between syria and turkey is an area that is controlled by the way bills and as such it is possible that they're firing these these rounds deliberately to provoke turkey to go to nato and call for foreign intervention of course this is something that many people are increasingly concerned about the situation in syria after eighteen months of fighting is showing no lacing up there continues to be almost daily blas in the

capital city of damascus and they're particularly cost suicide bombings has become almost the norm the same situation is happening in the lefkow the commercial hub of the country in the north and they we're hearing of continuous heavy fighting and also in recent days and in recent weeks we've witnessed a rise in gas suicide bombings there were also receiving a twitter feed from the sheriff adnan out of not he is a sunni muslim preacher and this salafist leader has become almost a symbol of the rebels find him in syria he says that they have captured the cousin of the syrian president bashar assad we have no information on that at this stage and no way of actually being able to independently prove it russia continues to play a mediating role they are expecting that the e.u. in nato envoy to syria could be in russia later this month and as such will be there for talks but russia is edging calm and saying. this kind of escalation in

tensions along the tension syrian border is completely unacceptable in any kind of cross border operations are to be found upon political analysts sure why now why do you think this action could be turkey's under the radar approach to intervention in syria turkey declared war on syria long time ago this is aragon endeavor to lose war they've supplied weapon and they've supplied training assistant they've harbored you know gunmen in jihad just on their territory so so you know turkey's at a situation now crossroads where they cannot seem to get the international system they need to start or you know do a last question against the assad regime they cannot get a u.n. security council resolution to authorize these things and this may be you know setting the groundwork a pretext for a back door into military intervention because of course turkey venkat can call on its nato allies to to assist and it's essential to the nato allies who would

anyways do you know a military confrontation with the assad regime if there was a u.n. security council resolution and there are questions about this is this the false why you know operation to to sort of set the grounds for military intervention there's been many false narratives over syria i think this is just another one. bahrain is keeping up its crackdown on pro-reform protests causing more fierce clashes between police and demonstrators friday tear gas and water cannons were used to disperse the crowds while it started after the funeral of a young protester who died in custody or to those to be equal rights from the sunni monarchy and the release of political prisoners one of the prominent human rights defenders to be over a job has gotten a hunger strike he was briefly released to attend his mother's funeral but not allowed to mourn further with his family where job is serving a three year jail term for participating in illegal gatherings meanwhile former c.n.n. correspondent amber lyon believes her documentary what happened in bahrain was

censored by the. brain is paying c.n.n. to create content that shows bahrain in a favorable light even though c.n.n. says this contents you know is editorially independent it doesn't see it can affect that well we've seen that with this documentary not airing and also with the constant struggle i had at c.n.n. to get bahrain coverage accurate bahrain coverage of the human rights abuses on air while i was there what c.n.n. is doing is they're essentially creating what some people have termed infomercials for dictators and that's this sponsored content that they're airing on c.n.n. international that's actually being paid for by regimes and governments and this violates every principle of journalistic ethics because we're supposed to be watchdogs on these governments we're not supposed to allow them to be paying customers who are able to kind of dodge our minders and sneak into some of the villages and actually see these atrocities patients who have run out of the

hospitals that were shot up with birdshot and as we were heading back out of these villages we were violently detained by security forces and buffering and luckily my female producer and i were able to hide some disks in our broads and we were able to actually get out of the country with this content so you can imagine covering surprise when we got back to the u.s. and. and this content was airing on c.n.n. and right after that is when the phone calls started coming in to the network complaining about me and trying to get my coverage off the air. violence and unrest has returned to the tunisian streets to this after a clash over trash at least thirteen thousand angry residents take to the streets setting cars on fire over the reopening of a rubbish dump more details online. in washington becomes the latest u.s. city to display jihadi ads we look at whether it may actually be provoking even more hatred toward the muslim world this and more online at r t dot com.

the pakistani military has blocked an anti-u.s. motorcade rally that was heading toward the country's tribal hub along the afghan border the protest was led by cricket legend turned politician imran khan attracted thousands a large number of civilians have died in american drone strikes khan is calling for an end to the killings robert naiman an activist an analyst pushing for changes to u.s. foreign policy thinks civilians have become the main victims from drone attacks not high level militant leaders as washington claims. president obama's counterterrorism advisor has claimed that civilian deaths from drone strikes are exceedingly rare well we know that the bureau of investigative journalism in the u.k. has counted somewhere between four hundred hundred eight. civilian deaths since two thousand and four from u.s. drone strike so in fact far from being exceedingly rare the civilian deaths are normal that's a regular thing and in fact there are seven to fifteen times as many as the death

of these so-called top level terrorist leaders so the actual policy is something completely different from the story that's being told in united states the story is being told united states is zol about targeting top level terrorist leaders and it's not killing civilians the reality is the total opposite of that the un special rapporteur tour on extradition and execution has said that you know if these reports are true about what the u.s. is doing there would constitute war crimes u.s. involvement in neighboring afghanistan is also pardon me seen thousands of casualties among civilians as well as nato is it or are we look at the legacy of the alliance action there eleven years on and its consequences. so korea is signed an agreement that with the us that allows it to possess missiles capable of reaching any part of north korea a previous arms pact with washington restricted souls ability to develop or deploy

long range rockets leaving many targets in the reclusive communist state out of reach tim beal and asia specialist from london though thinks the real goal behind the deal could be to threaten china. this new range will take them into china that i think has been the sticking point as the. interests of americans are now agreed to it. through june it was the american election everything to do with elections from the south koreans want to view they want to build in the capability for their own actions in december which conceivably my thinking more peaceful down i think this particular. finding nothing very much to do with that satellite test and just as probably on long discussions both sides thinking this is the time for electoral reasons to come to an agreement to extend a ballistic missile range there is

a certain reason talk for concern i mean more bizarre around them there is now this danger but things that basic issues like i don't really think it makes any any critical difference to the balance of power balance of power in east asia honestly in americans favor in south korea say that north korea is very very weak in real military terms and we have to see this within the context of all american strategy to contain china. and the anger is mounting in europe as social services take to the streets for a second day in madrid trade unions gathered thousands to demand an end to cutbacks in the public sector and privatization of public services italy has also seen its fair share of action this week led by the country students who clashed with police thousands marched in major cities calling for the government to save the schools and not banks in aroma to six policemen were injured as students who are stones at

them and tried to rush a police van in venice independence supporters marched on saturday to demand the region go it alone from roma the rest is prompting investment advisor patrick young to say the e.u. could be headed toward collapse. the european union constantly believes it knows what's best for all of its client states therefore it pushed countries like ireland should be allowed to in order to basically appease french and german borrowers there are absolutely no positive results from what the e.u. has done over the course of the last five or ten years indeed basically the history of the euro is not horribly soiled exercise it effectively breaching the people and trying to destroy economies the european union has several fundamental problems ultimately it is a very rich area with a great deal of resources the difficulty is it's very difficult to start a business it's very difficult to run a business if you're successful in business they're going to touch you to death and in the meantime they're all running absolutely ridiculous kuhl meanest era sized

socialist states the truth is western europe is bankrupt eight cannot afford the how the government be the major economic actor in the system and therefore just as we saw russia pohlmann is a collapse so too we are seeing the death of western european socialism u.k. prime minister david cameron's warn he would veto the e.u.'s new budget if necessary he suggested europe should have two separate budgets one for countries that use the euro and another for those who don't and the next hour can i. professor roberts adel ski tells r.t. that london is used to blaming others for its economic woes. but the sad fact is that the british economy has been shrinking slowly almost for a year rather like a very slow leaking balloon and the government of been trying in one or two small ways to give it a bit of a stimulus one thing is that they're blaming everyone but themselves the school it

was a it was the euro crisis then it was the high high commodity rise in commodity prices and say they claimed that the policy of the sterett to should bring about the recovery but that it's derailed by these unfortunate acts shocks but the policy of a sterile. is basically wrong when there is a lack of private sector demond when banks lending when businesses don't want to borrow when people are cutting down their spending because they want to reduce their debt when the government then adds to that sort of downward pressure on spending then it's no surprise that the economy isn't growing. october seventh eleven years ago the u.s. led war in afghanistan started more than three thousand alliance troops have died

in the conflict since most of them americans far more afghan civilians have also lost their lives their national affairs commentator rick rose off from the group stop nato thinks the alliances fostered discontent among the afghan people. precious little has been accomplished on the bodies of the sons of course by the the western military intervention an occupation in afghanistan. most of you know arguably the only accomplishment dubious as it is that opium production is skyrocketed under the watch of the u.s. and nato in afghanistan you know evidently the afghan people are not on developing foreign boots on the ground and no particularly after such a long period of time the so-called green on blue attacks are an indication that the rank and file of the population would like to see us in their nato allies the us in their nato allies vacate the country x. this quickly as possible and that none of this. debacle would have occurred in the first place of it not been for the harder in the reagan administrations for the war

which you know exacerbated the make and regional about the tensions inside the country and theirs and in essence led to a thirty four year war in afghanistan and we have to place the blame where it belongs you know this is the resolve of us intervention going back to late ninety seven these charges opposition celebrated a surprise victory in the country's parliamentary election last monday the georgian dream bloc secured more than half the vote despite the high poll ratings of the ruling party backed by president mikhail saakashvili or his lex haris cesky explains what brought defeat for the president and his allies. it was a jubilation like never before seen in billie see it felt like georgia had won the world cup. there when was not get them than five thousand stick to the streets to celebrate support is all they have put this in part to get that incentives really see say down to the exit poll results suggest that their proxy could be the serious in the parliamentary elections something hardly any one of them we haven't liked it

only twelve months ago last year the ruling party's rating was at seventy percent and nobody could challenge that so confident was saakashvili that he. amended the constitution granting more powers to the prime minister a position many predicted he would eventually feel himself little did he know he was digging his own hole while he nailed this changes to the constitution it is it time it was a dream that never see the problem. of this petty but that's a little less clear however this situation did not come out of nowhere prison torture tapes released in september really the hardest thousands took to the streets as allegations emerged that he personally ordered the torture and filming of these atrocities and now the president could even lose his job with the possible next prime minister even if she really already making his intention clear. this man's ideology has established

a climate of lines of violence and torture it would be good if he submitted his resignation rather than enough starting various procedures to force him to resign saakashvili did concede defeat live on air but the question remains whether he's really ready to let go of the reins but it could be a dramatic change or it could be the herald of a period of infighting talking to his admission of defeat in a sense perhaps shows that he's a wounded animal but the would be still a fear that he would use the correlatives of the president to try to split the opposition remember it's a rather disparate group of people who have been primarily united by still a two to saakashvili it wasn't only the prison tape scandal which brought saakashvili is fortress of power down say experts corruption among elites don't seem poverty in playing hardball with russia all contributed the new really party says it will address these issues in the first place but as the party in continues in georgia is bracing itself for

a new era and the first peaceful transition of power in its post soviet history. r.t. reporting from billy c. georgia turning now to some other stories making headlines across the globe libya's recent. elected prime minister has been forced to stand down after a no confidence vote from parliament who stuff has failed for a second time when lawmakers approved including cabinet you know full cabinet lineup was rejected thursday protesters stormed the building calling for the prime minister's resignation or was the country's first elected leader after last year's overthrow of the khadafi regime. and alleged palestinian militant was killed nine others injured by an israeli air strike in gaza aircraft targeted two motorcyclist who israel claims were jihad is plotting a terror attack against troops and civilians witnesses identified one is a member of the palestinian militant group three children were among those hurt.

so dan's president has ordered a land in the river border crossings with south sudan reopened this after the two countries president's last month signed deals on security and cooperation held by experts as a signal of the end to the long running tension the two nations broke apart july of last year after decades of civil. private california based company space x. has successfully launched the maiden flight of a dragon cargo ship was the first mission of twelve planned under a one point six billion dollar contract with nasa space x. is working on transforming the unmanned dragon cargo vessel into a space ship that could carry american astronauts to the international space station the cargo ship due to return to earth at the end of the month carrying capsules filled with blood and urine samples as part of medical studies. right. a misunderstanding as lefty a russian man badly beaten out of a hospital bed the student who had been detained on charges that were later dropped

now faces a lengthy and others certainly recovery after being brutally beaten by inmates at a canadian juvenile detention center his family and friends say the country's authorities aren't doing anything to help or his polly boyko reports. a trip to study english in canada gone horribly wrong twenty four year old denise teller cough arrived in calgary in june eager to learn about the country and make new friends it was at this language school those friends would quickly turn to enemies with a misunderstanding over a girl she was charged with making threats and placed in calgary's room on center actually we're going to stay safe like you were just tell me. you don't know whether you know what you claim about this and it was no direct threat or something i mean. i don't know why it was just a big misunderstanding while his family in moscow tried to scrape together the bail money things took a turn for the wass cellmates brutally attacked him jumping on his head repeatedly

little after months on the life support machine denise recently retained consciousness doc to say he's in a vegetative state his adoring family is devastated by the lady gaga you know eating on his arm you have been there already and you grieving do you. feel your arias go our way or and you know very slowly or very the charges that denise faced have now been dropped which in turn meant the detention center was no longer responsible for his medical bills leaving his family facing a financial nightmare on top of the emotional one local media campaigning to raise funds for denise's ballooning medical bills. will watch. or. call them to call it bull or in.

general. all look we're all we all all warm and. denise isn't the only victim to emerge from this facility last month another man christopher kirk suffragette a lacerated spleen and a broken nose after a similar attack while in custody. very often in sharpening all we were and it balloon are a lot of. action and we were very late in going. in the war i mean. how the young man so eager to find out about life in canada studying english like he didn't initially set out is now a distant prospect first he'll once again have to learn the basics how to walk feed himself and speak his native russian denise's family can only hope that the country

where this brutal attack took place provides him with the help that we so desperately needs. about. our special report coming up after a short break stay with us. well to the. audience technology innovation all the moves developments from around russia we've got the future covered. while.

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